Melanie Hamrick | |
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Born |
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S. | July 17, 1987
Citizenship | USA |
Occupation(s) | Choreographer, ballerina |
Partner | Mick Jagger (2014–present) |
Children | 1 |
Melanie Hamrick (born July 17, 1987) is an American choreographer, author, producer, and former ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre, from which she retired in 2019 after fifteen years. [1] [2] In 2014, she began a relationship with Mick Jagger, [3] with whom she has one child, born in 2016. [4] [5] Hamrick was born in Williamsburg, Virginia and attended the Kirov Academy of Ballet. [6]
Hamrick choreographed a 2019 ballet named Porte Rogue, which was soundtracked to songs by the Rolling Stones and composed in collaboration with Jagger. [7]
In 2023, her debut novel, First Position, was published by Penguin Random House. [8] [9] [10] The romance novel, though not autobiographical in nature, is "loosely based on some truths backstage" during Hamrick's time as a ballerina. [11] The novel's title is a pun based on the first position in ballet. [12] In writing First Position, Hamrick took inspiration from her life experience as a ballerina, the novel Fifty Shades of Grey, and the 2010 psychological horror film Black Swan. [12] She announced in March 2024 that her second novel, The Unraveling, would be released that August. [13] [14]
Melanie Hamrick | |
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Born |
Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S. | July 17, 1987
Citizenship | USA |
Occupation(s) | Choreographer, ballerina |
Partner | Mick Jagger (2014–present) |
Children | 1 |
Melanie Hamrick (born July 17, 1987) is an American choreographer, author, producer, and former ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre, from which she retired in 2019 after fifteen years. [1] [2] In 2014, she began a relationship with Mick Jagger, [3] with whom she has one child, born in 2016. [4] [5] Hamrick was born in Williamsburg, Virginia and attended the Kirov Academy of Ballet. [6]
Hamrick choreographed a 2019 ballet named Porte Rogue, which was soundtracked to songs by the Rolling Stones and composed in collaboration with Jagger. [7]
In 2023, her debut novel, First Position, was published by Penguin Random House. [8] [9] [10] The romance novel, though not autobiographical in nature, is "loosely based on some truths backstage" during Hamrick's time as a ballerina. [11] The novel's title is a pun based on the first position in ballet. [12] In writing First Position, Hamrick took inspiration from her life experience as a ballerina, the novel Fifty Shades of Grey, and the 2010 psychological horror film Black Swan. [12] She announced in March 2024 that her second novel, The Unraveling, would be released that August. [13] [14]